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Accountant
Offices, Boards and Divisions · Posted 93 days ago
About the Role
The Finance Staff (FS) formulates, establishes, and maintains Department-wide policies, procedures, and financial systems to support budgeting, accounting, auditing, travel, and other financial management activities. This position is in the FS, Operations and Reporting Group (O&R) responsible for general ledger accounting, GTAS, IPAC, Budget, OTCNet, monthly and quarterly reporting, processing of IPAC transactions, Accounts Payable, TROR, and other Treasury activities.
What You'll Do
- →The duties and responsibilities for a Accountant, GS-0510-7/9/11 generally include, but are not limited to, the following: Assist with various reconciliation activities to ensure that subsidiary ledgers are reconciled to general ledger accounts by appropriation.
- →Review changes in procedures and processes to ensure that accounting records are updated properly.
- →Investigate and correct out-of-line and out-of-balance conditions.
- →Apply conventional accounting principles to journalize accounting transactions to general ledger.
- →Provide professional accounting advice and assistance in the application and compliance of generally accepted accounting principles, policies, and procedures.
- →Review, analyze, and modify operating programs, practices, and procedures related to receiving, controlling, validating, recording, and reporting accounting transactions affecting asset, liability, revenue, expense, and budgetary accounts.
- →Handle monthly, quarterly, and annual transactions.
- →Reconcile accounts payable, reimbursable and receivable.
- →Examine accounting documents for proper accounting classification and authorization.
- →Analyze a variety of accounts.
- →Prepare monthly trial balances and financial reports.
- →Support senior accountants and supervisors in various tasks in meeting organizational goals.
- →Provide assistance to field staff in processing journal vouchers or accounting entries.
- →Identify problems and discrepancies, determines if adjustments or corrections are required, and takes necessary action to correct.
Requirements
- ✓If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements, please see the statements below.
- ✓Education must be reviewed and certified by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education, in order for it to be creditable towards your qualifications.
- ✓Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from accredited institution.
- ✓FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements.
- ✓You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program.
- ✓It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
- ✓For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website.
- ✓If you are qualifying on foreign education, you MUST submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency.
- ✓Transcripts must be uploaded with your application to verify education.
- ✓All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.
- ✓If you are using education to qualify for this position, or education is required: You must submit a transcript, which may be unofficial, as long as it contains a full listing of courses, credit earned, grade and grade-point-average, subject area, degree(s) earned, and dates of award.
- ✓Your transcript must come from a nationally accredited educational institution recognized by the Department of Education.
- ✓Please do not submit electronic transcripts with documentation security protection.
Personality Fit
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